Built a full AI coding copilot desktop app in Electron — lessons learned after shipping v3.7

Just shipped Atlarix v3.7 — an Electron desktop

app for Mac and Linux that combines AI coding

with visual architecture blueprints.

A few things I learned building this in Electron:

- Apple Notarization with Electron is painful.

GitHub Actions + electron-builder + proper

entitlements took a lot of iteration to get right

- CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol) via Electron's

debugger API works great for capturing runtime

errors from your live preview iframe

- IPC architecture matters a lot at scale —

we ended up with a clean handler pattern

per feature domain

- Electron + React Flow for the Blueprint canvas

works surprisingly well for complex node graphs

Happy to answer questions about any of these

if anyone's building something similar.

App: atlarix.dev